“Gulag” has to remain a necessary shorthand for “the bad kind of prison that foreigners do”, because you can’t have people living in the state with earth’s highest prison population go around recognizing the conditions and class composition of their own prisons when they consume dystopian fiction.
Really highlights what atrocity propaganda is for beyond just manufacturing consent for war. It’s hard to complain about how violent and arbitrary yank cops are when the Evil CCP gestapo killed ten thousand peaceful protestors with machine gun fire in Tienanmen Square. Aren’t you glad you live in the Land Of The FreeTM?
“Gulag” has to remain a necessary shorthand for “the bad kind of prison that foreigners do”, because you can’t have people living in the state with earth’s highest prison population go around recognizing the conditions and class composition of their own prisons when they consume dystopian fiction.
Really highlights what atrocity propaganda is for beyond just manufacturing consent for war. It’s hard to complain about how violent and arbitrary yank cops are when the Evil CCP gestapo killed ten thousand peaceful protestors with machine gun fire in Tienanmen Square. Aren’t you glad you live in the Land Of The FreeTM?